Berdasarkan paragraf diatas, identifikasilah: simple, complex , dan compound sentences dari tiap kalimat dari paragraf tersebut.

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Soal menanyakan kategori jenis kalimat yang benar. Terdapat beberapa jenis kalimat. Simple sentence adalah kalimat yang terdiri dari satu induk kalimat( independent clause ) dengan rumus: Verba: S + V + O/C Nomina: S + to be + O/C Compound sentence adalah kalimat yang terdiri dari dua induk kalimat ( independent clause ) dan dihubungkandengan coordinatingconjunction (kata yang menghubungkan kata, frasa atau induk kalimat)yangterdiri dari and, nor, but, so, or, yet, dan for. Rumusnya adalah induk kalimat + coordinatingconjunction + induk kalimat . Complex sentence adalah kalimat yang terdiri dariinduk kalimat ( independent clause ) dan anak kalimat ( dependent clause ), sertadihubungkan dengan subordinatingconjunction (kata yang menghubungkan antar kalimat) . Rumusnya adalah induk kalimat + subordinatingconjunction + anak kalimat . Jadi, jawaban yang benar adalah: It would have been around 1993 or 1994. (Simple sentence) My parents had gone to a neighbour's for dinner, leaving my brother and I to look after ourselves. (Compoundsentence) Jono and I had always had a stormy relationship, so we retreated to our own bedrooms. (Compound sentence) Half an hour later, the door opened, and he peered sheepishly into my room. (Compound sentence) He asked whether I could lend him my tape player. (Complex sentence) This was a first, because he'd never been into music. (Complex sentence) It turned out that he'd borrowed a cassette from a classmate. (Complex sentence) I invited him to take the tape into his room, but we listen to it in mine in the end. (Compound sentence) Soon, the sounds of "Dewa 19" were blasting through the house. (Simple sentence) We got into the spirit of the music and played the single over and over again. (Compound sentence)